Constructing Asylum in a NonSignatory StateUrban Power and Refugee Resilience in Bangkok

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The lack of legal status is the primary challenge for more than five thousand refugees and asylum seekers seeking refuge in Bangkok. A refugee is not a legal category under Thai laws as Thailand is a non-signatory state of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol. Although UNHCR may have screened and granted refugee status, the Thai government has never granted such legal recognition. Thailand is concerned that giving a refugee status will become a pull factor attracting new waves of the forcibly displaced. • • Based on empirical data from ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok, this talk explores how the city strengthens refugee resilience leading these populations to their survival. • • Bhanubhatra “Kaan” Jittiang is a development sociologist and a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He is also the current Director of the M.A. and Ph.D. Program in International Development Studies (MAIDS-GRID). • • For other videos in this series, please visit the Refugee Program Seminars playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Refugee Program YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC93y... For more information and to learn more about the Yale Refugee Program, please visit Yale MacMillan Center Program on Refugees https://refugee.macmillan.yale.edu/

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